Ok…so I jumped the gun a bit earlier…but our spring if here!  No ifs ands or buts…it is here and the cold is gone!  It is 80 out there today and just gorgous!!  Since my surgery I have been feeling sooo much better and yesterday was my first day back to good old me…even my dear hubby was excited…You see I’ve spent months stuck inside miserable…so yesterday I informed him we would be outside working on the front bed, the only thing that could stop me was rain…well…no rain!  So that front bed…about 20 feet long and about 5 feed deep…got tackled…It hadn’t been touched since we moved in so the soil was pretty yucky!!!  So we transplanted the spirea that was there down between the yard and the tree line.  Which it looks much better there incedently…ok, so maybe I just think so.  I’m not one for formal gardens and that front bed was screaming it..so out with the old..(just moved remember)  and in with new!  And look what I have coming!

Yes I know they won’t look that good at first…they are coming bare root…which scares me to death but I have two rose aficionados in our neighborhood, one that is related to me, so I’m hoping they can help me on the making sure I don’t kill them deal!  I searched and searched for a rose that was an easy keeper..and yes I know..roses are not notorious for being easy, but I’m determined :)  So I got down and dirty in some cow and mushroom compost and picked out all the nasty weeds and rocks and mixed away…So now we have a raised bed that is filled with nutrient abundance!  I’m overly thrilled that I now have a bed that is dying to have plants in it but more than anything I’m more excited that I was able to enjoy doing it!!!  It has been a long time and it was dearly missed…I know..give me a little longer and all that grueling work will change my opinion but for now I’m gonna waller in the sun dirt and LOVE it!  That all being said…I’m BACK yall!!  so you’ll here from me more

On the computer front..well..I still need a new one…and I’m looking…thanks to the government and the stimulus deal with taxes I will be able to get something…it may not be a screamer but I think I can get something that will function!!  I mean come on…not even being able to check my e-mail…that is TORTURE!!!

So for the time being you will be inundated with pictures from my little emerging garden and beautiful outdoors till I can give you eye candy on the scrapping front

Later for now everyone!!  See you soon!

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Ok, so you all know me…the proverbial black thumb when it comes to plants!  Ok so that is past tense, or at least I hope.  I’ve managed to keep my pretty little orchid happy as well as my baby tears plant.  Both gifts so I didn’t have much choice either research the dickens out of them and see if I could keep them alive or add yet another plant to my list of destructed lives!  Well they have lived, and dare I say prospered!!!!  So I joined this place called MyFolia.

This is my desperate attempt at keeping all my info in one place to see what I’ve done that works and doesn’t work.  I WANT A GARDEN!!!  I bought a Weeping Cherry tree last year that is doing splendid, and have had all sorts of lovely surprises popping up all over the yard thanks to our previous owner.  So I’m snapping pictures and keeping my log over at MyFolia (and if you look at the menu bar on the left you can even see a random sampling of what is in the yard :))  I will be adding pictures as well to my photos tab up at the top, so check back and see what I have in bloom!

I still don’t have a computer that likes my graphics work so no scrapping updates…other than I continue to drool over products and even purchase one now and then…sad I know..but I just can’t help myself!  One day..one day I’ll have a screamer of a machine that can handle what I throw at it…but until then I’ll have to try my hand at the plants and maybe I’ll get lucky and become as good at that with the practice as I did with the scrapping.  Ok, or as good as is in my opinion :).

This is a uncharacteristically short post but look for more to come…And enjoy your Spring, I know I’m enjoying mine!

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Ok…so as usual I see something I want to get, or see, yadda yadda but that is only offered for a select time. Do you think I manage to remember them when I need to? Nope, I usually remember them the day after the deadline! And no writing it down doesn’t matter. I even have all the new fangled electronic gadgets that are supposed to help your life get and stay organized. Well..the PDA is at home on my desk dead since I can’t find the charger. The cell phone is a pain to insert all those reminders in so that doesn’t happen. So nine times out of ten I write it on a post it note to soon be lost in the little world of foster homes for notes that fell through the cracks! UGGGGHHHH!!!

Ok…so done ranting sorry…Good news…I’ve decided since hmmm..last week to begin my sculpting again. I have a really cool dragon that has been footless, wingless, tailless, and 1 handless for quite some time now, soon to be remedied. Something that started as a hobby will hopefully become a little side cash soon. I usually make stuff for people I know but will be changing gears for a bit and put my little creations up for sale. So check back here if you are into collecting one of a kind sculpture, to some known as OOAK dolls (miniature around 6-9 inches tall). You never know what will make its way out of my little never ending imagination and plant itself in a 3-d clay formation! Pictures to come of the dragon in progress! Ohhh..and if you have any requests of anything you’d like to see yell..I love to see what I can come up with when prodded with an smidgen of an idea

News on the sickness homefront as well!! I see a light at the end of this very miserable tunnel I’ve been in lately! I am scheduled for surgery on the 12th!! I will be gladly saying good bye to my icky little gallbladder! Ohhhh how I hope this helps me!! Keep your fingers crossed for me!

Ohhh I found this really nifty little site called Library Thing. You can catalog the books your have on your shelf. Or if you are like me, the books that are on shelves, in nooks and crannies, on coffee tables, sitting on couches, lost in my little girls basket of toys, yadda yadda yadda. And look over on the left! You can now see random books in my stash! :):)  How fun is that!  I love to read and if you are interested I am even going to put some on Readers United (a swap site!)  So if you see something you like head over to Readers United and see if it is out there (someone else might have it if I don’t!).

Well I have to run but I’ll check back in soon :):)  To all you scrappers out there enjoy your gift!  I sure miss being able to scrap to my hearts content :)  Later all!

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